The bus ride to the hotel the night before was a bit more challenging.

"You're talking about when the bus crashed into the hotel?" he asked Terry Mills, the co-host on Beilein's "Inside Michigan Basketball" radio show Monday night.

Wait, what?

Michigan's flight landed Saturday in Indiana and went to hold its shootaround immediately. Following that, they went to their local hotel when things went sideways as the bus driver turned into an alleyway.

"Great guy that was driving us, but it was one of those things where they have a rain shelter to come in made of beams and you couldn't see it at night," Beilein said. "And he pulled right into it, right through the ceiling of the bus. And we had fiberglass everywhere for a second.

"Just on the first couple seats -- where I sit."

No one was hurt and when the game result turned out like it did, with the Wolverines winning in Bloomington for the first time since 2009 and the second time since 1996, Beilein saw it all as an omen and told the driver.

"After the win, I said I don't care that you tried to crash us into the hotel, I said, 'we'll take you every time from now on,'" Beilein said, laughing. "We usually have another guy, a big Michigan fan. But he's fired. You're the guy, even though you crashed the bus, it's good."

Though Michigan had good vibes heading home, the plane took a dip as it was descending towards Willow Run and made another approach apparently.

"I was asleep when the plane decided not to land," Beilein said. "I was asleep and (his wife Kathleen) told me about that later on."